Management
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The recent, $1.9 trillion spending bill has a lot of elements. It seeks to improve the condition of small business. It also includes money to help the government modernize its information technology. Several provisions impinge directly on the General Services Administration.
March 29, 2021 -
In response to the pandemic, a non-profit of business executives devoted to national security issues created a commission to examine how to improve federal emergency response. Their recommendations include broadening the definition of “disasters” to include pandemics and cyber incidents.
March 26, 2021 -
The Social Security Administration sent the IRS data on 30 million Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients Thursday, which will allow the Treasury Department to move ahead on processing their Economic Impact Payments.
March 26, 2021 -
If confirmed, Maryanne Donaghy would take over an accountability office that Congress, whistleblowers and the department's inspector general say has failed to live up to its original mission.
March 26, 2021 -
Things are busy for Customs and Border Protection these days, and decision-making has to keep up. One of the proven ways for managers to make better decisions is by arming them with actionable data.
March 26, 2021 -
The Office of Personnel Management is the object of a long list of reform recommendations from the National Academy of Public Administration. What Congress will do with them is anyone's guess.
March 26, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a group of lawmakers urge President Joe Biden to backpedal firings and suspensions of White House staffers for prior cannabis use.
March 26, 2021 -
After noting some big corruption enforcement cases, lawyers at one firm are telling clients, including federal contractors, to get ready for increased levels of investigations and enforcement.
March 26, 2021 -
Finding people imbued with the idea of public service is only part of the federal manager's job. You've also got to create conditions that sustain their passion.
March 26, 2021 -
Despite several delays, Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said he still believed the department could meet its $16 billion, 10-year plan to deploy a new electronic health record.
March 25, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office says agencies need to move with more urgency on cybersecurity.
March 25, 2021 -
On this episode of On DoD, Carmen Malone, the deputy assistant DoD inspector general for audit joins Jared Serbu to discuss the department's 2020 financial audit findings - and why there are glimmers of hope that DoD might eventually pass an audit.
March 25, 2021 -
This discussion with Lyle Kellman of GDIT is part of Federal News Network's DoD Cloud Exchange
March 25, 2021 -
The Office of Management and Budget will lead “a coordinated approach" to fold agency strategic plans and priority goals into the Biden administration’s fiscal 2023 budget request and its President’s Management Agenda.
March 25, 2021 -
A watchdog report finds that a former Navy civilian auditor sexually harassed at least a dozen female employees for more than two decades as part of a pervasive pattern of misconduct and retaliation
March 24, 2021